Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’
Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’ plan being activated, with some ambulances redirected from A&E. The network failure was one of the most severe known to have occurred at an NHS hospital trust. To clean and restore the infected network, Barts […]
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Health security defeats RAF testers
A team of RAF security experts recently spent three days attempting to penetrate the wireless networking component of a managed service covering healthcare for British Forces in Germany – and failed. The secure networking is part of a managed service, PAS 2.0, built and hosted by Dataline Software for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation […]
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EU sets e-health map for 2009
Ilias Iakovidis and Michael Palmer tell E-Health Europe’s Outi Alapekkala how e-health will develop in 2009 and far beyond.
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Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back
Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems encountered in the first seven pilot sites.
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This is the year to come
That was the year in primary care IT
Here was the news: in 2008
The future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS was the big news of 2008. E-Health Insider’s review of the year opens with calls from opposition politicians for the programme to be reviewed or abandoned and closes with NHS chief executive David Nicholson admitting that it is now at a “pivotal point.” The […]
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Self-service kiosks for Birmingham hospital
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is to install self-service kiosks developed with Blue Prism in the reception areas of its new hospital. The trust is involved in a major building project, as part of which it needed to streamline its reception and registration processes. Patrick Geary, chief marketing officer for Blue Prism, said the […]
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Leicester uses FrontRange for SAM
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has bought 8,000 FrontRange SAM Suite licences to improve control of its IT inventory. Technical security specialist David Rose it became interested in software asset management after it learned about NHS Connecting for Health’s National Infrastructure Maturity Model (NIMM) and how it affected access to licences in Microsoft’s Enterprise Agreement […]
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Kingston therapy supported by IMS Maxims
A new system for improving access to psychological therapies has gone live across Kingston Primary Care Trust, supported by software from IMS Maxims. The system is a response to the government’s commitment to the improving access to psychological therapies programme. Once referred, individuals are contacted by one of Turning Point’s wellbeing co-ordinators. They carry out […]
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